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It Happened One Night
A Man and a Woman No One Seems to Know
In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert spend the night in a motel and register as man and wife to protect the identity of Ellie Andrews. In the morning, two detectives and the owner of the motel knock on the door on Gable’s and Colbert’s room to find out where or more information about the missing Ellie Andrews. Colbert then goes into panic, and has the idea of jumping out the window, for she does not want to go back to her father and husband. Gable calms her down and tells her to get her hair in front of her eyes and unbutton her dress. Next, the detectives knock on the door. Gable now rambles loud enough, in a southern accent, about some fake letter he got last week so the detectives

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